Two physicians from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMMC) have been selected to lead the Massachusetts Medical Society for the 2014-2015 year.
At the society’s annual meeting Thursday, Richard S. Pieters Jr., a radiation oncologist, was elected president, and Dennis Dimitri, a clinical associate professor and vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at UMMC and UMass Medical School, was named president-elect.
Each will serve a one-year term for the society, which represents more than 24,000 physicians and medical students in the commonwealth, it said. Â
Both men have a long history with the Massachusetts Medical Society. Pieters most recently served as president-elect and vice president while Dimitri held the role of vice president.
